this is obama speaking. what stopped us are meeting challenges is not the absence of sound policies and sensible plan. but stop this is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics, the ease with which were distracted by the petty and trivial. our chronic avoidance of tough decisions. our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle big problems. that was the essence of obama's case against hillary. and it was wrong. .. >> it was not qleen or pretty. it was not suitable for young ears. [laughter] the whole stimulus debate is really a case study in obamaism. to the -- excuse me -- to the disillusioned attics of the left, and i apologize to those in the room, but it proved that obama was just about like every other politician, more interestedded in cutting deals and chasing dreams. to the feverish right, it revealed obama as a eurosocialist radical, and republicans never explained how the 715 million tax cut in spending s